HE 240 Holistic Health

Explore how complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine contrasts with Western medicine, to make informed health care choices. Investigate traditional indigenous systems of healing throughout the world. Examine holistic therapies and sustainable approaches to address issues around stress, nutrition, inactivity, environmental health and well-being.

Credits

3

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Compare the philosophies, practices and cultural contexts of a variety of holistic health therapies and how they compare to conventional Western (allopathic) medicine
2. Assess health-related values, beliefs, theories and complementary or integrative practices for the development of personal behavior change strategies, goals and practices
3. Critically examine research and media on alternative and allopathic medicine including historical, cultural and social contexts
4. Describe the interacting dimensions of environmental, physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual and occupational health and how they can affect global health outcomes
5. Apply scientific reasoning and independent critical thinking to evaluate the sustainability and validity of information holistic health therapies, products, and practices
6. Challenge culturally constructed biases toward specific group identities that lead to stereotyping, microaggressions, implicit bias, systemic oppression and decreased individual and community health outcomes